Theodore H. Tulchinsky

TH Tulchinsky MD MPH

Associate Professor (Adjunct)

Braun School Public Health

26 April 2011

Dr. Tulchinsky has over 43 years of public health experience in leading organizations in the process of system delivery and public health improvement, teaching public health and promoting public health development in countries of the former Soviet system.

Dr. Ted Tulchinsky lives in Ashkelon, Israel with wife Joan. They have 3 children and 6 grandchildren. Ashkelon, with a history of 5,000 years is located 50 kilometers south of Tel Aviv and 15 kilometers north of Gaza.

He was born (1936) and raised in Brantford, Ontario, Canada and studied medicine at the University of Toronto. He began his medical career as a General Practitioner in Saskatchewan (followed by Internal Medicine) and Ontario and then studied at Yale University for the Master of Public Health degree (1968).

He moved to the Province of Manitoba becoming Associate Deputy Minister from 1971 to 1973. His duties included responsibility for developing health policy, district health systems, integrating hospital, long term care and primary health care programs. From 1973 to 1976, Dr. Tulchinsky was the Deputy Minister for the Manitoba Department of Health and Social Development, responsible for managing the combined department of over 3,000 staff. During this period, he initiated and led in development of Manitoba's home care program, rural district health systems and urban community clinics as well as traditional public health issues suchas control of a Western Equine Encephalitis epidemic, school health and health of prison guards.

In 1976, Dr. Tulchinsky and family moved to Israel where he became Director of Public Health responsible for managing the preventive health system. He worked on immunization policies, maternal and child health issues such as anemia of infancy and many other public health issues.

During 1981-1994, Dr. Tulchinsky was appointed Coordinator of Public Health Services for the West Bank and Gaza as the Israeli Ministry of Health supervisor of health matters. He worked especially on vaccination policy, primary health care, maternal and child health, nutrition, community health workers and training programs, and in a coordinative role following the transfer of responsibility for health to the Palestinian Authority in 1994.He has been active in promoting fortification of foods to prevent micronutrient deficiency conditions in Israel and the Palestinian Authority for over more than two decades

Since 1994, Dr. Tulchinsky has been Associate Professor at the Braun School of Public Health and Community Medicine, Hebrew University, Jerusalem, Israel. He is responsible teaching Organization of Public Health Services in the International Master of Public Health Program and a seminar course in The Risk Approach.

In 2000, Dr. Tulchinsky, with co-author Dr Elena varavikova, published the text "The New Public Health: An Introduction for the 21st Century." This was published in English, Russian, Bulgarian, Moldova, Macedonian, Mongolian, Uzbek and is in process in several other languages. This is a textbook of some 850 pages for students of public health, nursing and other health realted disciplines. The second edition of this textbook was published in 2009, and a translation is in process into the Georgian language. The third edition of this book is in process for publication in 2012.

He organized and conducted mentoring projects for new schools of public health in countries of Eastern Europe and the former Soviet Union in developing new schools of Public Health. He was responsible for the Visiting Faculty programs conducted at the Braun SPH with participants from many countries in Central and Eastern Europe, Russia, Central Asian Republics and in cooperation with the WHO Collaborating Center on Public Health Workforce Development, from China. He has been closely involved in development and assessment of new schools of public health in Albania, Moldova, Macedonia, Russia, Bulgaria, and Kazakhstan. .

In the period 2000 to the 2007, he worked with US Academy of Sciences and other organizations on Palestinian, Israeli and regional nutrition issues, including micronutrient deficiency conditions, monitoring of nutritional status and on communicable disease control.

In 2008-10, he was responsible for preparation of Working Paper on Nutrition for Israel Ministry of Health, Health Israel 2020 Project, and in activities of the Ministry of Health in fortification of flour, milk and salt with essential micronutrients.

Since 2007, Dr Tulchinsky serves as a member of the Executive Board of the European Association of Schools of Public Health (ASPHER), and Co Chair of ASPHER's Working Group on Public HEalth Ethics.

From 2008, he serves as Deputy Editor of Public Health Reviews, now located in the new French National School of Public Health (EHESP) in Paris and Rennes, France. He was responsible for issue of the new journal on The New Public Health (2010) and Education in Public Health (2011), and Public Health Ethics in preparation for 2012).

Honors

Member of Israeli delegation to the 1978 Alma Ata Conference on Primary Health Care, Alma Ata, Kazakhstan, and participated in the 30th anniversary conference, Almaty in October, 2008.

Professor Honorarium, Faculty of Health Sciences, University of Mongolia. "For your significant contributions in developing and strengthening the public health sector and medical research of Mongolia, you will forever be held in the highest regards at HSUM"

2005.

Honorable Doctor of Tbilisi State Medical University (Georgia) Academic Council award of the title of in Department of Public Health Dec 2006.

Professor Honoris Causa, Saints Cyril and Methodius University, Macedonia, Faculty of Medicine, May 2008.

Andreas Stampar Medal awarded by the European Association of Schools of Public Health, (ASPHER), November 2008 "for distinguished contribution to development of public health in Europe".

Publications Since 2004

Tulchinsky TH, Nitzan Kaluski D, Berry EM. Food fortification and risk group supplementation are vital parts of a comprehensive nutrition policy for prevention of chronic diseases. European Journal of Public Health. 2004;14:226-8.

Tulchinsky TH. [Letter to Editor] Poliomyelitis end-stage strategy. Bulletin of the World Health Organization. 2005;83:160.

Tulchinsky TH, Bickford J. Are schools of public health to address public health workforce development in Canada or the 21st century? Canadian Journal of Public Health. 2006;97:248-50.

Chivu C, Tulchinsky TH, Brezis M. A systematic review of interventions to increase awareness, knowledge and folic acid consumption before and during pregnancy. American Journal of Health Promotion, 2008;22:237-245.

Tulchinsky TH, Ginsberg GM, Clayman M, Porat A. Excess diabetes-related conditions identified in a District Health Profile using vital statistics and hospital utilization data, with follow-up policy effects. Public Health Reviews..

Tulchinsky TH. [Letter to Editor] Poliomyelitis end-stage strategy. Bulletin of the World Health Organization. 2005;83:160.

Tulchinsky TH, Bickford J. Are schools of public health to address public health workforce development in Canada or the 21st century? Canadian Journal of Public Health. 2006;97:248-50.

Chivu C, Tulchinsky TH, Brezis M. A systematic review of interventions to increase awareness, knowledge and folic acid consumption before and during pregnancy. American Journal of Health Promotion, 2008;22:237-245.

Tulchinsky TH. It is not just the broad street pump. Journal of Public Health 2009; doi: 10.1093/pubmed/fdp112.

Oakley GP Jr, Tulchinsky TH. Folic acid and vitamin B12 fortification of flour: a global basic food security requirement. Public Health Rev. 2010;32:

284–295.

Dennis Addo D, Yadav V, Njiru H,Sebuliba H,Eldor O, Kone M,Farrah I,Gavrichenko D, Salami K, Tulchinsky T [letter to editor]. 2011.Goverenment leadership needed for food fortification in sub Saharan Africa. American Journal Public HEalth. Available at http://ajph.aphapublications.org/cgi/doi/10.2105/AJPH.2010.206896

Other Publications

Tulchinsky TH, Varavikova EA. (2004). The New Public Health: An Introduction. [In Macedonian], Skopje, Macedonia.

Tulchinsky TH, Varavikova EA. (2004). The New Public Health: An Introduction. [In Bulgarian], Sophia, Bulgaria.

Tulchinsky TH, Varavikova EA (2005). The New Public Health: An Introduction [in Albanian], Tirana, Albania.

Tulchinsky TH, Varavikova EA (2005). The New Public Health: An Introduction [in Mongolian]. Ulan Baatar, Mongolia, 2005.

Tulchinsky TH, Varavikova EA (2005). The New Public Health: An Introduction [in Moldovan] Chisinau, Moldova, 2006.

Tulchinsky TH, Birt C, Kalediene R, Meijer A. ASPHER Values, Vision, Mission and Aims: A Working Paper. European Association of Schools of Public Health (ASPHER), 2008.

J Goodman, J Overall, T Tulchinsky. Public Health Workforce Capacity Building. Lessons Learned from "Quality Development of Public Health Teaching Programmes in Central and Eastern Europe". European Association of Schools of Public Health (ASPHER) with Open Society Institute of New York (OSI), Soros Foundation. April 2008.

Tulchinsky TH, Varavikova EA (2009). The New Public Health, Second Edition. Academic Press/Elsevier, San Diego CA.